Exactly. 10-15 years ago and more the situation or workers had been pretty grim in Poland so many people decided to migrate when borders opened.

Now with economy booming the employers are desperate with lack of workers and they are bringing them from wherever they can - Kazakhstan, India etc. Ukraine is the obvious source due to proximity and cultural similarities.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_...

That's at least what I heard from Polish friends that live in Germany. She's an architect, he has a project manager role in construction. Plenty of Polish people in construction in Germany, construction in Poland has lots of Romanians and Ukrainians, because it pays better for Poles to work further West.

Mostly it's because demography is very bad. We had 700 000 kids born yearly in 80s and less than 400 000 in 90s.

But still the "youngest" country in the EU, right? I.e. the country with the most young people.

Also the country with the most independent radio stations and film freaks. And BSD hackers.

Basically we've had the peak in 80s and that generation is now in the most productive years (30s-40s), it's great for economy, but these people will retire in 30 years and the next generations are almost 2 times smaller - it will be hard to balance budget. Especially now that the current government LOWERED the retirement age from 70 to 65 for men and 60 for women.